[K12OSN] Installing Ubuntu kills machine

[Todd O'Bryan]

Here's a question that someone may have good ideas about before I go  
in tomorrow and fight with my machine.

I'm trying to install Ubuntu on a fairly old but nice machine--dual  
800MHz P5s, 1.75 gigs of RAM.

Everything works up to the point where it looks like X should come  
up, but the monitor goes dead. This has happened before, so I pressed  
Ctrl+Alt+F1 to get a terminal. And then discovered that the keyboard  
was dead.

As a doornail. Pressing Num Lock or Caps Lock doesn't even turn on  
the lights on the keyboard, even though it did previously during the  
install before everything went black.

Any ideas?

Thanks,
Todd